Select the correct text in the passage. Marianne Moore's "Poetry is written in defense of poetry. In the excerpts, which three lines or phrases reflect Moore's opinion of what good
poetry should be?
... to discriminate against "business documents and
school-books", all these phenomena are important. One must
make a distinction
however, when dragged Into prominence by half poets, the
result is not poetry.
nor till the poets among us can be
"literalists of
the imagination"--above
Insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall
we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.